The Lowell Historical Society opens its annual program series by going back to its and your roots. The Society over the years has offered many presentations on the people of Lowell - the famous and the ordinary. The urge to seek out our own people, our own origins, our own family connections, where the family came from, lived and worked is as strong as ever. The sources to aid the genealogist in us abound in Lowell. We searchers seek information and records in the usual places - in the library, city hall, and in the newspaper archives. Of course, the access to sources provided by the internet has really opened up a wider world of information. With a few words typed into a website the US Census records, Miiltary records, local directories, even old phone book information can reveal so much. There is yet another source locally that is often overlooked - the Registry of Deeds. The Society offers the following program on Tuesday November 24th at 7pm at the Pollard Memorial Library:

The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds is a treasure trove of information for genealogists, homeowners curious about the history of their dwellings, and anyone else interested in local history from the earliest English settlement to the present day. With more than 10 million pages of land records dating from the 1650s freely available online, the registry’s website, www.lowelldeeds.com, is well worth adding your internet browser’s favorites.

 On Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Pollard Memorial Library’s ground floor meeting room (401 Merrimack Street, Lowell), Register of Deeds Richard P. Howe Jr. will explain and demonstrate how the registry’s records are stored and indexed and will provide a lengthy list of helpful hints that will enable you to make maximum use of the registry’s holdings. Sponsored by the Lowell Historical Society.  Call Tom Langan at 978-452-0897 for additional information.

Please join us and our guest presenter - a past President of the Lowell Historical Society and fellow blogger - Dick Howe for a real insider’s look at the “treasure trove” of information available at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds and to get tips on how to use these records in your family genealogy project. Refreshments will be served. See you there?